State Qualifying Standards

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There are three types of state qualifying standards. While these can be achieved at any meet or time trial, they only count towards state qualification if swum at one of our four invitationals. 

Provisional

This is a time set by the AIA. In order to swim at the state meet you must swim this time or faster at one of our four invitationals. At the end of the regular season we will enter the top four boys swimmers and the top four girl swimmers from our team that have achieved one of these times at an invitational into the state meet.

Each event at state has a set number of entries (40 for individual events and 30 for relays) and each team is allowed to enter a set number of athletes (4 boys and 4 girls for individual events and 1 relay per relay event).

Each athlete is allowed to swim either 2 individual events and 2 relays or 1 individual event and 3 relays.

Once all the teams in the state have made their entries the AIA administration places the top 40 athletes that have been entered a qualifying time and the top 30 relay teams with a qualifying time from each event into the state meet.

If less than 40 individuals or 30 relays are entered it does not matter. They DO NOT fill the slots with athletes or relay teams that do not have a provisional qualifying time.

Top 10

This is set by our coaching staff. This time is the 10th place qualifying time from the previous year's state preliminary meet. Achieving this means you would very likely score at the state meet this year and may even final.

Top 20

This is set by our coaching staff. This time is the 20th place qualifying time from the previous year's state preliminary meet. Achieving this does not guarantee you'll score in this year's state meet but it gives you a great chance.